A Citizen's Guide to the Globalisation of Finance
by Kavaljit Singh
Zed Books, London, 1999
pp xt+187, INR 120
Savaging the Civilised
by Ramachandra Guha
OUP. New Delhi, 1999
pp x+398
An eminently watchable movie based on a mediocre novel.
reviewed by Paramjit Rai
Talking to Rehan Ansari in these pages some months back, filmmaker Deepa Mehta noted that making films
Moran of Kathmandu: Pioneer Priest, Educator, and Ham Radio Voice of the Himalayas
by Donald A. Messerschmidt
White Orchid Press, Bangkok.
1997314 pp, NPR 650
Living as a Muslim In a Plural Society
by Faziur Rahman Farldi
Islamic Foundation, Madras, 1998
pp 105, INR 65
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
Oxford University Press, Karachi/Zed Books, London & New York, 1998
pp x+162, PKR 395
Following in the footsteps of Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun, the latest offering for Himalayan buffs is none other than Everest, the movie. This film, however, is one Himalayan
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition
by Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition is a timely book for all
AIDS in Nepal: Communities Confronting an Emerging Epidemic
by Jill Hannum
AmFAR/Seven Stories Press
New York, 1997
A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
Selected and edited by Muneeza Shomsie
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
hardback xxxi + 599 pages
Her Gold and Her Body
by Jamila Verghese
Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi,
Second (Revised) Edition 1997
